Eeepc picture frame

We’ve all seen a million digital picture frames. Usually, people use an old outdated laptop or something. [Quinten] just sent in this one he made using an Eeepc 701. Being the first one available, the smallest both in terms of screen size and storage, they are available pretty cheap. There’s nothing amazingly groundbreaking here, just yanking all the parts out of the Eeepc and mounting them, nicely, in a wooden frame. [Quinten] did a great job getting everything in, with the least amount of space wasted. It strikes us that He has made a super cheap tablet conversion, he’s only missing the touch screen. We’ve seen Eeepctablet conversions, but they seemed to have much more difficult to construct cases.

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Please, digital picture frame are now available for less than the price of the glue used in this project. These kind of mods are everyday a little further from ‘hacking’ and closer to ‘being a digital redneck’.

Is there any website that has a compilation of good software to use for a pc picture frame? I am looking for something like a clock, full screen weather, good media player (large buttons, album art, etc.) maybe a custom UI.

@m0535
Any of the “widgets” type things should give you what most of what you want;
Yahoo! Widgets (for Windows)
Google Desktop (for Windows)
Konfabulator (for UN*X + XWindows)
Vista (might be a bit heavy) has them built in.

It’s fairly easy to write new or modify widgets if there’s not one that does exactly what you need.

I was thinking about doing something like this. What appealed to me was the networking side of it. You could create a shared folder on the Eee PC and just connect another laptop to it, send photos (wirelessly), and it would show them on screen. Removes the need for a memory card all together!

Also, if it were me, I would have added touch screen capability, seeing as the kits for this model are going so cheap on eBay.

I see shielding *all over* the place! In addition to a large sheet metal shield at the lower right of the photo, it is evident that that the interior of the entire housing either contains a metal liner, or is coated with conductive material of some kind. (mid and upper-left of photo.)

why do *you* think the manufacturers put that in there? I stand by my original comments.

barry99705 said:

>There’s actually very little sheet metal in an
>eeepc. Mostly just the bottom of the keyboard.

That’s no ordinary sheet metal. Its aluminum. Aluminum doesn’t hold heat very well, so i’m guessing its main use is to not pass the heat to your lap, of which past years have complained so frequently of killing sperm, eggs, etc.
the damn eee is cheap plastic. It would probably melt if not for that flimsy aluminum.